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ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the world of work (ILO/AIDS)
Nine of every ten people living with HIV will get up today and go to work."
Juan Somavia, Director-General of the ILO
What's new
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Youth Employment Forum
30 April 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
On 23-25 May 2012, the ILO Geneva will host a Global Youth Employment Forum to address the challenges young people face in the labour market.
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A Memorandum of Understanding signed between UNAIDS and ITUC
26 April 2012,
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a strategic vision to reach zero employment-related discrimination, zero new HIV infections and zero AIDS-related deaths. Under the new memorandum of understanding UNAIDS and the ITUC will work closely together to eliminate employment-related discrimination, address the socio-economic determinants of vulnerability to HIV infection related to the world of work and increase access to antiretroviral therapy and to social justice.
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Sub-Regional meeting supporting teachers infected and affected by HIV in West and Central Africa
17 April 2012, Accra, Ghana
The meeting aims at generating ideas to strengthen teachers’ roles in contributing to HIV prevention efforts and ensuring that teachers living with HIV can be supported through effective policies and HIV prevention, treatment and care programmes, protecting them from HIV-related stigma and discrimination. The meeting will address specific challenges faced by teachers living with and affected by HIV and AIDS in West and Central Africa. The meeting will be organized jointly by ILO, UNESCO, the World Bank, UNAIDS, WHO, Ministries of Education, Education International (EI), and Partnership for Child Development (PCD).
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UN Panel on HIV and Human Rigths focusses on the workplace
22 March 2012,
On 20 March 2012, during the first panel session on HIV and Human Rights the Human Rights Council highlighted the need to protect human rights at work, citing the 2011 Political Declaration and Recommendation No. 200. ILO and other speakers urged the Council to keep this important issue on its agenda.
Key resources
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Recommendation concerning HIV and AIDS and the World of Work, 2010 (No. 200)
17 June 2010The new labour standard is the first human rights instrument to focus on HIV and AIDS in the world of work, and was adopted - by an overwhelming majority - by governments, employers’ and workers’ representatives from ILO member States at the International Labour Conference in June 2010.
